[eastforker]

Well, we all know why they put flouride in the water, they just told us it was for our teeth.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Its for our teeth and, of course, helps to sell an otherwise useless byproduct of certain chemical manufacturing processes, fluoride.

It was noticed that Army recruits from western Texas had few cavities. They tested the water and determined that it had high levels of fluoride. Of course it also had high levels of hydroxiapatite (SP?) which is found in bone, but that is not an otherwise useless byproduct of anything, ergo, it must be the fluoride, which can now be widely marketed as a new miracle cure for caries.